English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Lawrence

12:00 AM

@KitZ.Fox That was very encouraging, and I really appreciate the notes of affirmation.

Rand al'Thor

@Lawrence You got one of my votes :-)

Lawrence

@Randal'Thor Thank you! :)

Truth be told, I was a little down yesterday (before the results) due to the other matter. There were other factors, but I suspect that cultural differences cut in both directions on that occasion. I wish I could have helped more effectively, but that's perhaps one to leave to closer colleagues.

Kit Z. Fox

12:24 AM

Well, you'll be well prepared for next time. Matt didn't get elected on his first run, nor MetaEd.

JR ran here first, then got elected on ELL.

Also, I don't understand why I don't have Greek dressing with this Greek salad.

Lawrence

12:40 AM

@KitZ.Fox I'm fine with how the election turned out. As for next time, maybe I'll just link back to stuff from this election. :P

Kit Z. Fox

Efficiency will always score points with me.

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox =D

Hmm, that just looks like a jellyfish.

@KitZ.Fox Have fun with your new mods!

Kit Z. Fox

Thanks. They are a handful already.

sumelic

Woohoo, I think I just cleared out the review queue!

Kit Z. Fox

Nice job, @sumelic!

That's a hell of a consolation prize.

It's weird having the bat signal extinguished.

sumelic

12:52 AM

@KitZ.Fox Hah, the election was fun as a process. I didn't enjoy the drama though. I'm hoping that will go away now that we have our two new mods.

@KitZ.Fox It just went up again! Like one of those underground gas fires, it can't be extinguished forever.

Kit Z. Fox

It's been my experience that it will probably be a couple of weeks until everything settles down again.

@sumelic it is because you talked about it.

sumelic

@KitZ.Fox (stays silent)

Kit Z. Fox

mumble, mumble, @Rand al'Thor mumble, shakes fist

sumelic

Well actually, I have to leave for dinner now! Fun chatting with y'all.

Kit Z. Fox

See you!

Rand al'Thor

1:00 AM

@KitZ.Fox Hey, what'd I do now?

Kit Z. Fox

Frigging comment flags. You ought just to have run for moderator.

Rand al'Thor

@KitZ.Fox OK, fine, I'll stop. I'm about to go to bed anyway :-)

I could have run, but I don't really know enough about site policies here (e.g. the relationship with ELL). I would've just been a silent figure behind the scenes, slaving away at the flag queue rather than discussing stuff on meta/chat.

Also, I would've lost :-D

Kit Z. Fox

@Randal'Thor Well, I've taken care of most of them.

But you're missing bunches.

So I have to review the posts anyway.

Still. I rather enjoy deleting ancient comments.

Rand al'Thor

@KitZ.Fox I only flag the ones I'm really sure should be flagged and removed. That way I won't waste your time with invalid flags.

(from what I hear, SFF is unusually lenient with comments, so that probably biases what I see as flaggable)

Kit Z. Fox

The other mods are probably more lenient.

Rand al'Thor

1:11 AM

For instance, on this question, there's a whole bunch of comments I could maybe have flagged, but they do relate directly to the question and aren't obsolete or non-constructive, so I just flagged the few that were obsolete.

Kit Z. Fox

I tend to go soft on jokes.

user227867

You are here at a late hour, Kit.

Kit Z. Fox

Indeed. I'm getting the mods settled in and trying to stem the tide of Rand's comment flags.

user227867

Do you usually wear glasses? I wear them when I go out, but wear nothing at home.

Kit Z. Fox

Yes, my vision is poor, so I wear spectacles.

I can't go without them except by wearing contacts.

Rand al'Thor

1:18 AM

@KitZ.Fox The tide is turning. I'm going to bed.

'Night all!

user227867

I will never wear contacts. It's funny to have something in the eye that you might not be able to remove.

Kit Z. Fox

@Randal'Thor Good night! Thanks for the flags!

user227867

@Randal'Thor See you in your dreams.

user227867

meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/9332/… shouldn't we clean up the comments on this post, all of them?

Kit Z. Fox

@JasperLoy It's under discussion.

user227867

1:34 AM

I think not installing any form of Flash allows me to watch 90 per cent of the videos online. The other 10 per cent still require it.

Tonepoet

@JasperLoy You could download Chrome as a separate browser for those occasions when you need... pepperflash.

Cerberus

1:53 AM

@Tonepoet Is there any reason in particular why you wouldn't just use Flash in your normal browser?

Click to play, of course.

Tonepoet

@Cerberus Well, I wasn't thinking about that at the time but there is at least one good reason: Jasper uses Linux, and pepperflash is the only up to date version of Flash on linux.

Otherwise I think you have to use Flash 11.2, when it's up to 20-something.

Cerberus

Oh, so Firefox on Linux doesn't have the latest version of Flash?

That is indeed concerning.

tchrist

The bat signal is fallen!

The review queues are at zero.

And no, I didn't just go smack ’em all, either. :)

Cerberus

Huh.

I thought it was...

The Thundercat signal.

BOOM BOOM BOOM

mew

@Robusto Ah, well, I think the ultimate reason is that the neuter paradigms (morphology) resemble the masculine paradigms most. Cf. masculine bonus, neuter bonum, and feminine bona:

tchrist

bonum bonum

Cerberus

2:07 AM

> sg. nom. — bonus, bonum, bona
gen. — boni, boni, bonae
dat. — bono, bono, bonae
acc. — bonum, bonum, bonam
abl. — bono, bono, bona

tchrist

forum and bonum are both accusative

Are we on adjectives then not nouns? :)

Cerberus

> pl. nom. — boni, bona, bonae
gen. — bonorum, bonorum, bonarum
dat. — bonis, bonis, bonis
acc. — bonos, bona, bonas
abl. — bonis, bonis, bonis

The singular will be the most important.

And I think various cases collapsed into one before the neuter disappeared.

Lawrence

@JasperLoy This one's right down your alley. Care to submit an answer? I'd say vibrato except for the condition becomes unclear.

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Q: How do you describe when a voice gets louder, starts vibrating more, and becomes unclear at high volumes?

How do you describe the phenomenon of a voice that gets louder, starts vibrating more, and becomes unclear at high volumes? Do you say something like 'it started trembling' or 'it began to crack'?

Cerberus

@tchrist It's easier to compare adjectives.

tchrist

facílimo, even. :)

Cerberus

2:13 AM

Spanish?

Incidentally, did you know the rhetorical term metanoia? See Rob's comment on the wall.

tchrist

Nope, that's Portuguese.

Spanish uses the regular form.

facilísimo

Metanoia sounds like MSE drama.

Cerberus

Hah.

Meta- before a verb or process usually means "change".

Mitch

@Cerberus that's so metannoying

Cerberus

But nice.

Tonepoet

2:28 AM

@Lawrence I almost want to say vibrato...

tchrist

@Cerberus morphosis

Tonepoet

Mostly just because of the way the word sounds.

Cerberus

Exactly.

And bolism.

And phorism.

tchrist

Not fair. Those are all Greek. :)

Cerberus

Noia is not?

Have you been busy cleaning?

With your new broom?

tchrist

2:33 AM

A little. Mostly Mitch's byblows.

Weird long distance effects of posts from years ago popping up on the Late Posts page once he finished off a deletion. :)

Lawrence

@Tonepoet Same. I think the OP's suggestion of voice-breaking fits the becomes unclear part, but not the gets louder and starts vibrating more parts. Perhaps the question itself is unclear.

Tonepoet

@Lawrence I think it's probably as well worded as it can be. The unclear part is that we can't hear the quality of voice described. It could be a screech.

Hmm...

Lawrence

@Tonepoet "Hmm" indeed :) . Almost worth posting as an answer. You may get heckled if you do, though.

Tonepoet

This cute cat video was brought to you, courtesy of a S.W.R. like that. =P

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tchrist

2:50 AM

Bit slow on the uptake tonight, Smokey ole chap.

Lawrence

3:20 AM

@tchrist The title was sufficient to give pause.

@Tonepoet :)

Kevin Duke

3:53 AM

Can you guys help me with a tip of the tongue word? What's the word we use to describe equality on schools with diversity, where it's equal opportunity for all races

regardless of income

it's also the word used as the issue described to help people from underrepresented groups to attend school

ah finally remember it

Affirmative action

user227867

Isn't it just equality?

Kevin Duke

i thought it was mainly used in education

user227867

How is affirmative action the right word?

Kevin Duke

i was trying to remember that word, so i ended up just describing it

Matt E. Эллен

7:18 AM

@FaheemMitha That's not litotes, try something like "that's not a way to uncloud the issue"

user227867

7:56 AM

@MattE.Эллен Hi! Now we are of the same age. =)

user227867

@Lawrence That is three different things happening, not one. =)

user227867

@Tonepoet I know about that, but I'm trying to minimise the use of anything that is not open source.

Tonepoet

@JasperLoy Ah, that's different than the problem you had before. Okay then.

user227867

I am going to bed, good night.

Faheem Mitha

8:42 AM

@MattE.Эллен heh.

Matt E. Эллен

good night

lag has made that last message awkward...

Lawrence

9:03 AM

@JasperLoy Indeed. You're the opera singer, though, so I thought you'd know. And if there's no word for this combination, you'd be able to say so definitively as well.

@MattE.Эллен We certainly get some interesting interleavings. Look at the unintended transition to one of my messages.

Matt E. Эллен

lol

Lawrence

(Fixed the link, but looks like you've worked around it already.)

Helmar

9:32 AM

Hi guys,
is meta not the place to put in a bug report? Even if it might be not that significant?

RegDwigнt

Ohai, new mods.

6

Helmar

Or do I need to go meta.SE?

Matt E. Эллен

it's fine to put it on meta.

although it will get more attention if you post on meta.se.

user36188

10:17 AM

hi , how to spot the errors of the Particular Given Sentence in English,how do I practise the questions for finding the Errors

Is there any Link for Practising the Questions without errors in the English,Then I also Should know why this error Occured with Explanations,anayone Guide Me

Lawrence

@user36188 Read lots of good English that's known to be good English. The bad would then be evident.

user36188

send Me the links i have to be do practise for english

DEAD

@user36188 English Language Learners

user36188

@Dead Thank You

I am Practising for the exams , when articles should be used and when Prepositions should used

Is there any Link

for articles and Prepositions

DEAD

There are too many prepositions in English to be in one link.

You don't have any study material?

user36188

10:30 AM

yes Dead For english I am facing Very Difficult in exams, In English the Syllabus includes Synonyms and Anotnyms,articles,spot the Errors,sentence Formation

DEAD

Do you have any books to study?

user36188

only English Make me to withstand from back,please Guide me to crack the exam

Helmar

@MattE.Эллен If meta is the place, why did my - admittedly trivial - bug report get two down votes? Did I miss something?

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Q: Inaccuracy in the new users tab

After the moderator election I clicked through the newly discovered user tabs and I found a little inaccuracy. The tool tip of the tab says users who joined in the last 45 days. As it happens I am a 46 day site member. Yet I am still listed in the tab. Of course, this is not a big thing, I jus...

bug

DEAD

@Helmar Downvotes on meta can mean everything

Matt E. Эллен

I don't know. noöne has given a reason. it could be that they aren't having the same problem, or it could be they think it's too trivial, or it could be another reason. I don't have a problem with your post

user227867

10:34 AM

@RegDwigнt That is a lovely panda.

DEAD

It could also be that they don't like your face/gravatar identicon

user227867

@Lawrence I am only a banana.

user227867

@user36188 I think you should improve your English in general first before practising in this particular manner. Just read lots of books.

user227867

@Helmar Welcome to SE. Votes do not mean anything. Don't lose hair over them.

DEAD

@JasperLoy Votes do mean anything, but only if they're stacked.

Helmar

10:38 AM

Ok, got it, ignoring the trolls, that I can post bug reports there was the important info :)

user227867

Today, I am back to using Ubuntu MATE LTS.

DEAD

@Helmar Lawrence's comment is spot-on.

Could also be the reason behind the two downvotes.

"this isn't an issue"

Helmar

Maybe

user227867

I am going to watch a movie: The man who knew infinity.

user227867

I think I will go out tomorrow and take a look at some Mac computers.

Anonymous

11:13 AM

@DEAD Any- is polarity sensitive, so you have to use something in your reply.

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DEAD

@snailplane Yah I know

but there is a difference between knowing and using

especially when your brain is half paralyzed.

Anonymous

Declarative and procedural knowledge.

user227867

11:35 AM

Hello @snailplane. You didn't run for mod on ELU. =)

Anonymous

@JasperLoy That's true. I don't feel like I've been active enough on EL&U over the last few years, so I don't really have a good enough feel for the community, everyone's opinions on how things should be run, and so forth.

Anonymous

I do consider myself part of the community, though :-)

Anonymous

I'm glad EL&U had a good election.

user227867

I should check out ELL more. Totally not familiar with it.

Anonymous

@JasperLoy I like ELL. It's not a perfect site, but it helps people :-)

Anonymous

11:39 AM

It's grown fairly active over the last few years.

user227867

@snailplane I see. It might be friendlier than ELU, hehe.

Lawrence

@Helmar If I were an SE dev, I'd consider the inconsistency between the two numbers to be worth tidying up.

Anonymous

ELL started around 15 questions/day, dipped down to 10 at the low point of the beta, but is now up to 35 questions/day with quite a few active users.

user227867

Sounds good. I think I will open an ELL account now.

Anonymous

If you'd like, you can visit our ELL chat :-)

user227867

11:41 AM

I just got 100 points, lol.

Helmar

@JasperLoy Affiliation bonus for the win ;)

user227867

@Helmar Yup, I know. Remember I have been here for 5 years, lol.

Helmar

@Lawrence Me too, but some people seem to think otherwise ;)

Lawrence

@Helmar But are they software engineers? :P

Helmar

@Lawrence Who knows? ;)

Lawrence

11:46 AM

@Helmar If the continuing mods want to get the new mods to exercise their new modly powers, you could flag your post for migration to Meta.SE.

Edit it first to incorporate my comment (and ping me to delete said comment).

Mitch

@tchrist What? Am I doing something that needs to be cleaned up?

tchrist

@Mitch Not at all. I was teasing.

It's a curious side effect of deletion at times.

Helmar

@Lawrence I wouldn't want to presume to know what the mods want :D

Lawrence

@Helmar Don't presume. Ask.

It's really just one new mod. The other new mod isn't new to modding.

Helmar

Well, mods, should I flag the bug post for migration to meta.se meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/9358/…?

terdon

12:00 PM

@Helmar No. That isn't really a bug. It's a time zone/caching/how-days-are-counted thing.

Helmar

@terdon Ok, fine

terdon

This is almost certainly it:

When someone joins, does it show "member for 1 day" or "member for 0 days"? It might just be a 0-based vs 1-based issue. Regardless of the reason, it looks humorous. Well spotted! — Lawrence 2 hours ago

In any case, SE devs and staff also check child metas.

Anonymous

Where does it say Member for X days?

terdon

The bug at least.

Anonymous

I see Member since today on the profile page.

Matt E. Эллен

12:04 PM

@snailplane there's a "new users" tab on the users page

english.stackexchange.com/users?tab=newusers

Lawrence

You need to hover the mouse over the tab to see it.

@snailplane It's a tooltip.

RegDwigнt

— "Read lots of good English that's known to be good English." — "Send me the links."

Humanity is doomed.

tchrist

You only just now figured this out?

RegDwigнt

No, I've been collecting proof for decades.

Just adding this particular one to the piggybank.

tchrist

Send him a link to a library card request form.

caub

12:16 PM

I like how French says "trimestre" and English "quarter" (of year). It's much easier/intuitive to say 1 year and 3 quarters

tchrist

For paper books.

RegDwigнt

I like how French says "cul" and English says "cul de sac".

tchrist

@caub Well, an academic quarter is half of an academic semester. The etymology of "six" in semester has been lost to some.

@RegDwigнt Bag End!

RegDwigнt

Sack arse.

Study translation, children.

tchrist

Dunsany, right?

Sacnoth.

caub

12:18 PM

@RegDwigнt French says "impasse" we are more distinguished :p

Helmar

You only get a real feeling for another language when you get how they swear and use insults ;)

tchrist

en.wikisource.org/wiki/…

RegDwigнt

I've never once heard anyone in France say "impasse". Not once. I do hear them talk about my mother's nickname a lot, though.

tchrist

No naughty words in this chat.

caub

lul

RegDwigнt

12:19 PM

The French put the tush in distinguished.

Lawrence

@caub Hmm, in English, a trimester is 1/3 of a period. The way you've phrased it, it sounds like trimester is 1/4 of a year in French, which would be surprising to me because of the tri prefix.

RegDwigнt

So I see @Robusto second-came in chat. Humanity is doomed alright.

Me, I shall second-go now. Cheerio.

tchrist

sloppy

Lawrence

@tchrist Stretching, but 1/6th of a 3-year course?

caub

Lawrence: tri can mean 3 too, not just 1/3

trimestre = 3-mois

trimaran: boat with 3 hulls

tripode, trépied

DEAD

12:27 PM

triphenyl- = three benzene rings

hello (al)chemist

Jello

A jello alchemist?

There is also a quatrimester for a four-month term I believe.

Lawrence

@caub Yes, that's what I was alluding to: tri = 3; context and accepted usage place the number in the numerator or denominator.

caub

12:38 PM

@tchrist quadrimester rather no?

Lawrence

@KitZ.Fox Did I interpret your comment in the way you intended?

caub

a decamester

Mitch

@tchrist Oh. hahaha then. I can give it but not take it. I was all self conscious there for a second. Back to unconsciousness...

Lawrence

Oops. Infinite edits would have come in handy right about now.

Kit Z. Fox

@Lawrence I haven't gotten back to it. I just got in and haven't had coffee yet.

Mitch

12:41 PM

no not coffee in chat

Lawrence

Coffee goes well with chat.

Or tea.

Mitch

Tea is allowed only nominall, despite that it has absolutely no stimulant effect.

at least no more than hot water.

Hot water allowed!!

@DEAD That just seems desperate

Isn't one enough

DEAD

@Mitch Apparently, it isn't

Lawrence

@Mitch Apparently, the caffeine content in black tea can approach that of coffee.

Weird spelling, caffeine.

Weird spelling, weird.

DEAD

Wired spelling, wired.

Mitch

12:46 PM

@DEAD counting...

triskaidekaphenylphobia

Lawrence

Anyway, I'm quite happy for tea with chat.

Mitch

@Lawrence Sure, after drinking gallons of the stuff

Lawrence

@Mitch I was referring to the concentration of caffeine in each beverage.

Mitch

@DEAD pretty snowflake. what does it do? clean off plutonium residue?

@Lawrence Sure, like a leprechaun's baton approaches a sledgehammer.

You all know the one about the leprechaun's hammer, right?

Kit Z. Fox

No. Tell me.

Lawrence

12:54 PM

@Mitch According to that website, 8 oz of brewed coffee (that's the strongest type they measured) has 95-200 mg of caffeine, 8 oz of black tea has 14-70 mg of caffeine. Then you go down to 8 oz of instant decaf, which has 27-173 mg of caffeine. Maybe that's why coffee drinkers don't like instant decaf.

The taste might have something to do with it as well.

@KitZ.Fox It's supposed to signal its approach.

Rand al'Thor

@suməlic There was drama? I must have missed that. (Or maybe after the ridiculous amount of drama during the last SFF election, nothing else looks like drama to me any more.)

Lawrence

@Randal'Thor No, the election itself wasn't particularly dramatic.

Rand al'Thor

watches @Kit tense up waiting for comment flags now that I've arrived

Lawrence

@Randal'Thor Careful now. She's been training 'em. :)

Looking at the star board, we have Hellions plastered all over. One's DEAD. One's Robusto. So to speak.

Two DEAD.

Umm, hello @Robusto. :)

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Humanity is doomed, sure, but my second-coming is no sign of the Apocalypse. We don't get to that until I've sixth- or seventh-come. I forget the exact sequence, but it involves some kind of circus clown—Donald Trump, perhaps.

@Lawrence Hello.

And good-bye!

Lawrence

1:05 PM

Okay, bye!

(No offense.)

Rand al'Thor

@Lawrence And one has the tone of a poet.

Lawrence

Indeed. But how did Robusto know when to step in like that?

Mitch

@Lawrence I call shenanigans. decaf coffee has more caffeine (a higher range) than tea? There you go.

Anonymous

@Lawrence That's a pretty wide range for decaf!

Anonymous

I drink tea every day, but I don't drink coffee.

Lawrence

1:09 PM

@Mitch Not worth it, innit?

@snailplane Poor quality control?

Mitch

The caffeine in tea is not metabolized like that in coffee. It's collected in the liver and never further broken down, just like heavy metals. So every thing is fine until one day your cat loses a staring match with you, and then it's all over.

Lawrence

@snailplane I've switched to water, but tea when the occasion warrants it.

RegDwigнt

Haha, France is now actually forcing women to take their clothes off.

Lawrence

@Mitch Really? Reference, if you please?

RegDwigнt

Oh-la-la, la police est la !

Mitch

1:12 PM

@Lawrence I've tried instant water. It comes in a powder and you just hold it under the tap for a few moments and, voila, instant water!

Lawrence

@Mitch You've been conned.

Anonymous

@Lawrence Well, I drink water a lot more than I drink tea :-) But I do have a cup of tea each day, roughly.

Anonymous

I'm addicted to caffeine.

Lawrence

@Mitch You should try the self-renewing cup. Every time you finish, just hold it under the tap.

Mitch

@Lawrence Just ask your cat. They'll confirm by not bothering to stare at you. Or maybe they will.

Lawrence

1:13 PM

@snailplane :)

@Mitch You're confusing me with tchrist.

Anonymous

It seems like a fairly harmless addiction as long as I don't put sugar or such in my tea. (Sugar in tea seems really gross to me.)

Lawrence

@snailplane I've come to enjoy the more exotic Japanese teas, like brown, wheat (?) tea. Maybe not wheat.

Anonymous

Now I want my morning caffeine. :-)

Mitch

@Lawrence My homeopathist suggested it. Much safer than distilled water which has so few impurities that you'll explode from the multiple homeopathic effects.

@Lawrence You don't have a cat? Then even worse!

Lawrence

(Stepping away for a bit.)

Anonymous

1:17 PM

@Lawrence Mugi-cha? Barley tea.

Anonymous

I like matcha-iri genmai-cha.

Lawrence

(Ok, it'll be more than a bit. But first ... )

@snailplane :)

@Mitch I've heard of an effect like that.

@Mitch Not anymore.

@snailplane Yes, that's it! Some call it buckwheat tea. I'm not sure whether that's just another name for barley.

@snailplane Is that green tea? Very fragrant. I enjoy the ones with more than a hint of stem.

Kit Z. Fox

@Randal'Thor That's not tense. That's me getting loose. flexes Bring it.

Lawrence

I'd stay longer, but I should go. Nice chatting with you all!

(@Randal'Thor See?)

Kit Z. Fox

1:33 PM

@RegDwigнt I think they should just wear wetsuits instead. That would make it more ridiculous.

Rand al'Thor

@KitZ.Fox Getting really close to my Marshal badge now. I'm going to try and take it slow for a bit, savour the anticipation, then speed up again once I've broken 500.

tchrist

2:14 PM

@caub Er um yes. I'm sure you of all people can see how these things blur in one's mind across tongues.

caub

2:43 PM

si, cuatro

Is quadratic related to quadri (4)?

tchrist

@caub At some level, certainly.

The old quadrate meant a square.

Having four equal sides and angles.

caub

Quadratic

In mathematics, the term quadratic describes something that pertains to squares, to the operation of squaring, to terms of the second degree, or equations or formulas that involve such terms. Quadratus is Latin for square. == Mathematics == Algebra (elementary and abstract) Quadratic function (or Quadratic polynomial), a polynomial function that contains terms of at most second degree Complex quadratic polynomials are particularly interesting for their sometimes chaotic properties under iteration Quadratic equation, a polynomial equation of degree 2 (reducible to 0 = ax2 + bx + c) Quadra...

yes ok, it's weird a 'quadratic' curve is any polynomial degree, not just 2

tchrist

> 1650s, "square," with -ic + obsolete quadrate "a square; a group of four things" (late 14c.), from Latin quadratum, noun use of neuter adjective quadratus "square, squared," past participle of quadrare "to square, set in order, complete" (see quadrant). Quadratic equations (1660s) so called because they involve the square of x.

caub

the brits felt like prepending a s

Matt E. Эллен

squadratic goals

caub

3:00 PM

football, well could be handball too

MetaEd

@Randal'Thor How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Marshal badge?

Rand al'Thor

@MetaEd Depends how many mods are around to handle the flags.

Cerberus

3:39 PM

@RegDwigнt Yeah, it's pretty weird.

I mean, banning religious symbols in government institutions is perhaps not absurd.

But this?

DEAD

@Mitch As of right now, nothing. It's just fun to watch

Those scientists need a hobby.

Stalking people is rude. Stalking chemicals is worse.

tchrist

3:59 PM

@DEAD Bad Santas put chemicals in your stockings.

Mitch

@caub no not at all. 'at most degree 2'. It can have more than one variable, but that's different from degree.

Anonymous

4:40 PM

@tchrist It's such a nice word, too.

Jim Reynolds

4:58 PM

@For 's answer, however right, in various ways, could be reasonably contrued as rude, personal against the OP. It should be deleted. The point could be made in a more clearly respectful manner. — Jim Reynolds 2 mins ago

Someone must stand, heroically, for the voiceless, the timid, the meek.

DEAD

Someone other than Jim

If Jim is the hero, what does that make me?

Jim Reynolds

@DEAD We'll take care of this in little boys' chat

Kit Z. Fox

@JimReynolds Oh. You should probably flag it then.

Unless you aren't serious.

caub

5:13 PM

@Mitch oh thanks I've been stupid, I thought quadratic = polynomial, for some reason, yea sorry

DEAD

5:24 PM

@KitZ.Fox Jim? Serious about helping people? Hahaha

terdon

@JimReynolds 3 years after the offending answer was converted into a comment? Why?

Jim Reynolds

5:54 PM

@terdon I didn't notice the date. Anyway, against the CW, I usually think How is a post? As old as it's last view, and I was linked there today. I'm not going to lose sleep over it, but it isn't a nice answer, and I hadn't anything else to do at the time. :'(

Kit Z. Fox

6:38 PM

@JimReynolds OK, but pinging Fortiter, who hasn't been seen since Dec 29, 2013 on a post by a user who hasn't been seen since Oct 21, 2013 isn't an effective way to get this done.

Instead, you should flag the comment for attention.

Because the only way I saw that it needed my attention was that I happened to be in chat and followed your comment out to the post.

Færd

7:12 PM

Whadayacallit when you suddenly stand up and feel dizzy? These articles simply say you feel dizzy and light-headed : merckmanuals.com/home/heart-and-blood-vessel-disorders/… menshealth.com/health/why-you-feel-dizzy-when-you-stand-up .

Is there a special term for it?

Oh, found it! :

Orthostatic hypotension

Orthostatic hypotension, also known as postural hypotension, orthostasis, and colloquially as head rush or dizzy spell, is a form of low blood pressure in which a person's blood pressure falls when suddenly standing up or stretching. In medical terms, it is defined as a fall in systolic blood pressure of at least 20 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure of at least 10 mm Hg when a person assumes a standing position. The symptom is caused by blood pooling in the lower extremities upon a change in body position. It is quite common and can occur briefly in anyone, although it is prevalent in particular...

> ... and colloquially as head rush or dizzy spell, is a form of low blood pressure in which a person's blood pressure falls when suddenly standing up or stretching.

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Can you use forget as a non-continuous verb too?

Anonymous

@Færd Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?

Færd

> Hi!

Anonymous

@Færd Oh, that's me, I have low blood pressure to begin with :-)

Færd

> - Hi!

> What did you call me for?

> - I was supposed to call you, but I forget why!

Is this use of forget correct?

Anonymous

Yes, that's fine.

Anonymous

7:26 PM

It's stative.

Færd

Cool! I hadn't seen it among other such verbs.

@snailplane I hope that's not a serious problem!

Anonymous

@Færd Oh, not usually.

Anonymous

Better to have low blood pressure than high, most of the time :-)

Færd

I guess sometimes it puts you off exercising and being active.

Jim Reynolds

7:40 PM

@KitZ.Fox Got it. Thanks.

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